Chapter 12 - More Voices

Antonia Braveheart
Arabella Ella
Arisia Vita
Artemisia Svoboda
Aurora Kitaj
Bertrum Quan
Chiaiu Chiung

Delani Gabardini On the nine seconds (from June 6, 2008 13:00 session)

Delani Gabardini: well before that let me say that I like letting my mind go free to “dance” so to speak
Delani Gabardini: and of course, play

Delani Gabardini: my first thought was “No I ams - more what ifs”

Eliza Madrigal (3/27/09)

I am not sure what I expected to discover when signing on to Second Life, but it wasn't a thriving, beautiful, meditative community. And it wasn't the richly diverse, sometimes-overwhelming-but-always-welcoming environment of Play as Being. What is difficult to articulate, is how *at home* I feel here, and how natural it seems, that I am.

As to 9 second practice, for me it is simply a lovely way to "check in" and re-set Intention to Be. Perhaps the most resonating PaB idea to my mind, is that of greeting each experience and person anew...of, as Pema might say, "bracketing" preconceptions and time.  

Hana Hendrassen
Mickorod Renard
Myna Maven
Myoko Fang
Neela Blaisdale
Nostrum Forder
Quilty Bookmite

Rajah Yalin On the nine seconds (from May 28, 2008 19:00 session)

Rajah Yalin: seems short but seems like a large accomplishment when you take into consideration how much is being done daily
Rajah Yalin: keeps the positive energies going

Shilv Tigerauge

Sonic Moonites (from February 24, 2009 07:00 session)

Sonic Moonites: thats one of the reasons i find running so useful for meditations, the movement and sense of the body makes it harder not be aware of
Sonic Moonites: especially as SL makes us even further away from our RL bodies
Sonic Moonites: easy to disconnect

Sky Szimmer (from May 19, 2008 07:00 session)

Sky Szimmer: yes. it reminded me of our conversation in RL, last month
Sky Szimmer: i think I was talking about there is always going to be a connection with “Being” and the body
Sky Szimmer: anyway, the explanation is consciousness has an “I” and in awareness not
Sky Szimmer: ‘I” being a bundle of memories and experiences, the five senses, etc.
Sky Szimmer: so in death, those attribute fades
Sky Szimmer: finer states of consciousness remains
Sky Szimmer: awareness being not a form of consciousness

Susi Alcott
Vertigo Ethaniel
Wester Kiranov